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ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Deeper Bound in BMC by Combining Constant Propagation and Abstraction
ound in BMC by Combining Constant Propagation and Abstraction Roy Armoni, Limor Fix1 , Ranan Fraer1 , Tamir Heyman1,3 , Moshe Vardi2 , Yakir Vizel1 , Yael Zbar1 1 Logic and Validat...
Roy Armoni, Limor Fix, Ranan Fraer, Tamir Heyman, ...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Frequency Selective Model Order Reduction via Spectral Zero Projection
As process technology continues to scale into the nanoscale regime, interconnect plays an ever increasing role in determining VLSI system performance. As the complexity of these sy...
Mehboob Alam, Arthur Nieuwoudt, Yehia Massoud
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Delay Uncertainty Reduction by Interconnect and Gate Splitting
Traditional timing variation reduction techniques are only able to decrease the gate delay variation by incurring a delay overhead. In this work, we propose novel and effective sp...
Vineet Agarwal, Jin Sun, Alexander V. Mitev, Janet...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Advanced tools for simulation and design of oscillators/PLLs
We present a robust, automated oscillator macromodeling technique for extracting comprehensive phase and amplitude macromodels from oscillators' SPICE circuit descriptions. Th...
Xiaolue Lai, Jaijeet S. Roychowdhury
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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A Technique to Reduce Peak Current and Average Power Dissipation in Scan Designs by Limited Capture
Abstract-- In this paper, a technique that can efficiently reduce peak and average switching activity during test application is proposed. The proposed method does not require any ...
Seongmoon Wang, Wenlong Wei
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Fast Placement Optimization of Power Supply Pads
Power grid networks in VLSI circuits are required to provide adequate input supply to ensure reliable performance. In this paper, we propose algorithms to find the placement of pow...
Yu Zhong, Martin D. F. Wong
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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A Fast and Stable Algorithm for Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Minimal Tree Construction
- In routing, finding a rectilinear Steiner minimal tree (RSMT) is a fundamental problem. Today's design often contains rectilinear obstacles, like macro cells, IP blocks, and...
Pei-Ci Wu, Jhih-Rong Gao, Ting-Chi Wang
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Abstract, Multifaceted Modeling of Embedded Processors for System Level Design
Gunar Schirner, Andreas Gerstlauer, Rainer Dö...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Low Power Techniques for Mobile Application SoCs Based on Integrated Platform "UniPhier"
In this Paper, we describe the various low power techniques for mobile application SoCs based on the integrated platform "UniPhier". To minimize SoC power dissipation, h...
Masaitsu Nakajima, Takao Yamamoto, Masayuki Yamasa...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Robust Analog Circuit Sizing Using Ellipsoid Method and Affine Arithmetic
-- Analog circuit sizing under process/parameter variations is formulated as a mini-max geometric programming problem. To tackle such problem, we present a new method that combines...
Xuexin Liu, Wai-Shing Luk, Yu Song, Pushan Tang, X...